Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-29

occupied by old ladies of Trinity Episcopal
aariSh. Not many years ago, however, II
was the homestead OF Charles Jarvis Wool
sou.
And who is WOOlson?
Iron men and mOngers remember Inn as
one of tue primeyal fo~undrymen of the
West while q writer here and q reader
there recognize him rs the father OF Con-
stance Fenimore WoolSon, that pleasing
weaver of fiction and description.
Cooking stoves and literary skill! a
strange combination, you must admit, but
a potent one, 30 far rs the WoOlsons are con
,srned. for it has brought them both richeS
md reputation. The family came here
.orty-seyen years ago, when Constance,
,lack nv gallautry, WAS little miss IN
abort GOWNS. Vermont had been their
nome and the f~ashiOning OF iron
into peaceful implements their susie
nance. Charles Jarvis WOOlson was a
o,an of education, and in the heyday oil
r,sV fingered youth he had aspirations be-
yond his fathers iiOurishing ioundry'
While vet but a slip ofa youth he cdlteu .
newspaper in New Hampshire, and at u
ne nodded public opinion in and aoO"I
charlottesville, Va, while his sire nodded
oIowshares and pruning hooks IN the
shadow of the Green mountains far away
Tbe New England Palladium, q Boston
5oiIv WAS his ownership later on, but the
lire of GOLD led him from the realms Of
journalism to the precincts OF trade ana
industry, and he Joined his father.
AT Cooperstowu, \. Y, he found q wlie
=, the person of Miss POmerOy, a niece Of
kenmore Cooper, and the first daughtei
Us named for her distinguished great
,ncIa Mr. WOolson's stoves, to borrow
he sn;rit of the first line OF 'Endymion,
were things of beauty and Joys eternal U
! he pioneers who blazed their divers way
through the forests OF Ohio, Indiana anu
Michigan. Fires, financial panics n us,
bonast partners comhated his energy apo
business capacity, bat to no purpose, ant
hon he died, eighteen years ago, ne lei
his family a competence for all Tune u
come. snpr
Meanwhile the young authoreSS spun
tories for the pleasure OF her family he'
summers were spent in the woods ana on
| the lakes. Nature enchanted her, n mel
| saIss are all stamped with a freshness ina
1 comes ONLY IIOUu ShusAhhS 49, -,
of country road and forest glade. mneI
her OUNCE sister married Georges Bene-
| d;ct n career was opened to her. bene.
J;ct,s father was half owner and editor OF
tbs Cleveland Herald newspaper, which a,
| hat time was the greatest daily In al
NoTtbern Ohio. Young Benedict tooS
his bright sister-in-law to New TOTE
and introduced her to the Harpers,
and tbey read her stories, Toey not Onty
read them, but they bought them on tne
NOT That wassixteen years ago-a spar
I'll bnt time enough in which TO create
! n9me that will live in literature. Inc
HaTDers arc strewd men, M as Sucn tney
ndnced Fenimore Ccoper's grand niece y
trade upon her ancestry as well rs
her talent. BY their advice Miss WSois?I
80 over her full name, and with the aid
MANNERS ink they informed the pnOhI
Of her relationship to the great Cooper o
CooDerstoyp. A legitimate transaetion
throughout, and a very proper u e 100.
The Woolsons were noted lar n ne =
er The excursions they made into tht
coantry. Nj. WoOdson owned a sPanSl %.
team Of grays, that were celebrated ioi